Updated: Suspect Attempts to Evade Police

10 a.m. Friday update — Police observed the suspect in possession of narcotics when they responded to a report of a suspicious event early Thursday morning, according to Alexandria Police spokesperson Jody Donaldson.

The suspect attempted to conceal the nartcotics and was ordered out of his vehicle. He then drove off, grazing a police officer in his right elbow with the passenger-side mirror of the vehicle.

Officers pursued the suspect before he stopped less than a half-mile away in the 100 block of E. Oxford Avenue.

The suspect was then arrested and charged with assault on police, eluding arrest and "possibly some other charges," according to Donaldson.

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A suspect sped away after being ordered to get out of his vehicle on Mt. Vernon Avenue early Thursday morning but was later apprehended by Alexandria Police.

A police officer was grazed by the vehicle when the suspect drove off. The officer was not hurt and did not need medical attention.

The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m.

“They eventually got him to stop,” Alexandria Police spokesperson Ashley Hildebrandt said.

The suspect was apprehended near the corner of E. Oxford and Mt. Vernon avenues, about a half-mile from where the suspect grazed the officer.

Hildebrandt was not sure why the suspect was initially pulled over.